In 1944, the Third Reich tries to summon a nameless horror from the void, only to have it beaten back by the combined efforts of the Allies and erased from history.
In 1953, the Soviet Union chains three children together into a psionic communist gestalt, only for it to assimilate its creators into a transcendent extra-universal hivemind.
In 1998, Prometheus Laboratories builds a sapient war machine with enough firepower to level a continent, only to be wiped from the face of the earth in the ensuing struggle for its control.

Unfortunately, their failures give everyone else the wrong idea.

The year is 2017, and the world has once more become embroiled in a secret arms race of apocalyptic proportions. Nobody is quite sure why - all anybody is certain of is that they have all built

Shao brought up concern with procedure - relies on existence of hell. If hell exists, heaven exists. If heaven exists, God exists. If God exists, God can see us. If God can see us, our actions have surely resulted in our consignment to hell…

Irantu: [shouting] Remember, we are on a mission for the Chaos Insurgency. Be violent. Be brutal. Be inhuman.

Soon there was nothing left except electric blue bone. With their meal concluded, the four electric golems stood up. The crew of the Imperator watched in disbelief as Jupiter's neon yellow hue turned toxic green…

Life does not exist in the traditional sense anymore.What?The Earth is a barren wasteland of rock and saltwater. There is one living thing: an enormous, multicolored tower in the Himalayas. It is five kilometers in diameter at its base and reaches nearly twenty kilometers into the sky.